Meeting Agenda

January 9th, 2002

Location:

DC 1304

Time:

2:30 p.m.

Chair:

Selina Siu

1. Adoption of the Agenda - additions or deletions

2. Coffee Hour

Coffee hour last week:: Durian Ice Cream
Coffee hour this week:: Lychee Ice Cream
Coffee hour next week:: Fermented Tofu?

3. Next meeting

Date:: Wednesday, January 16, 2002
Location:: DC 1304
Time:: 2:30 p.m.
Chair:: Zheng Qin
Technical presentation:: Wayne Olive

4. Forthcoming

Chair:

Mauro Steigleder (January 23rd)
Real Xu (January 30th)
Daming Yao (February 6th)

Tech Presenters:

Selina Siu (January 23rd)
Zheng Qin (January 30th)
Mauro Steigleder (February 6th)

5. Technical Presentation

Presenter:

Stephen Mann

Title: Using Geometric Algebra to Compute Singularities in 3D Vector Fields

Abstract: The flow of air and water is commonly represented as a vector field. These fields are used to analyze things such ground water flow and the air flow over an air plane wing. One difficulty in working with such fields occurs at singularities, or zeros, in the vector fields. While some singularities are known, such as sources and sinks in ground water flow, other singularities cause problems in analyzing the flow. In this talk, I will describe a method for finding singularities in 3D vector fields. The method uses geometric algebra to approximate an integral that determines if there is a singularity within a volume. This in turn is used to drive an octree spatial subdivision to localize the singularity.

6. General Discussion Items

7. Action List

Algorithms for alarming the machine room.
Demos.

8. Conferences and Special Journal Issues

Graphics Interface 2002

paper submission deadline: November 18, 2001
General URL: www.graphicsinterface.org
Conference URL: www.cs.yorku.ca/~gi2002
Venue: May 27-29, 2002, University of Calgary
Contact: Michael McCool

SIGGRAPH 2002

Paper submission deadline: 9 January 2002
Art gallery deadline: 6 February 2002
Computer Animation Festival: 6 March 2002
Sketches: 13 March 2002
General URL: www.siggraph.org
Conference URL: www.siggraph.org/s2002
Venue: 21-26 July 2002, San Antonio, TX

CFP: COMPUTER GRAPHICS IN ART HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY

Submissions due: January 15, 2002
Acceptance notices: April 20, 2002
Final Revisions due: June 1, 2002

Third International Conference -- Virtual Reality and its Application in Industry

in cooperation with EUROGRAPHICS
Call for papers: ???
April 10-12, 2002, Hangzhou, China
http://www.hziee.edu.cn/VRAI2002

Graphics Hardware 2002

Paper submission deadline: 15 April 2002 (after SIGGRAPH rejections...)
General URL: www.graphicshardware.org
Venue: Saarbruecken, Germany (hosted by the MPII), right before Eurographics, which will be held in the same place (a two-for-one special).

Eighth Eurographics Workshop on Virtual Environments (EGVE) 2002

May 30-31, 2002. Barcelona, Spain
Paper submission deadline: December 16, 2001
General URL: http://www.lsi.upc.es/ve2002

Curves and Surfaces

June 27-July 3, 2002. Saint-Malo, France
Abstract submission deadline: February 28, 2002
General URL: http://www-lmc.imag.fr/saint-malo/

9. Director's Meeting

10. Seminars and Events

Thursday, 10 January 2002, 3:30PM - Statistics & Actuarial Science , Math & Computer, Room 5158

Steve Drekic: -- The Distribution of the Deficit at Ruin When Claims are Phase Type

Friday, 11 January 2002, 9:30AM - Combinatorics and Optimization , Math & Computer, Room 5158

Daniel Brown: -- A conditional analysis of the elliptic curve digital signaturealgorithm

Friday, 11 January 2002, 2:00PM - Computer Science (Databases Group), DC1331

Ivan T. Bowman: -- Reducing Client/Server Latency by Detecting Stylized Usage

Wednesday, 16 January 2002, 9:30AM - Combinatorics and Optimization , Math & Computer, Room 5158

Prof. Edlyn Teske: -- Attacking Elliptic Curve Cryptosystems

Friday, 18 January 2002, 10:00AM - Computer Science , DC 1316

Qiang Tu: -- On Navigation and Analysis of Software Architecture Evolution

Friday, 18 January 2002, 2:00PM - Computer Science (Databases Group), DC 1304

Ningyan Zhong: -- Constraint Databases